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enFSU Reads Enrichment Program Begins Feb. 26http://www.fairmontstate.edu/fsunow/academics/fsu-reads-enrichment-program-begins-feb-26
<div class="field field-name-field-news-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Sunday, February 24, 2013</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-share-buttons field-type-addthis field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:title="FSU Reads Enrichment Program Begins Feb. 26 - FSUNow | Fairmont State University" addthis:url="http://www.fairmontstate.edu/fsunow/academics/fsu-reads-enrichment-program-begins-feb-26"><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a>
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<p>The Fairmont State University Reads program is preparing for the spring reading enrichment program for elementary school students in kindergarten through fourth grade. Sessions will begin on Tuesday, Feb. 26, and will continue each Tuesday through April 16 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Falcon Center on the main FSU campus.</p>
<p>Fairmont State students supervised by Sarah Williams, graduate assistant, have just completed an intense workshop/training period, working diligently to make this a successful reading experience for elementary students.</p>
<p>During the enrichment sessions, the students will hear stories, play reading skills games and complete writing/art projects. The program is presented to enhance a child’s love of reading. Although it is not a tutoring session, emphasis is placed on good reading practices.</p>
<p>To register children, contact Sarah Williams. Registration may be made by phone at (304) 367-4204 or e-mail at <u><a href="mailto:swilliams27@students.fairmontstate.edu">swilliams27@students.fairmontstate.edu</a></u>. The following information should be submitted for registration:</p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-news-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Tuesday, January 17, 2012</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-share-buttons field-type-addthis field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:title="Find Out More About Stalking Awareness Month in January - FSUNow | Fairmont State University" addthis:url="http://www.fairmontstate.edu/fsunow/athletics/hope-inc-host-informational-booth-promote-stalking-awareness-month"><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a>
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<p>In recognition of National Stalking Awareness Month in January, HOPE, Inc., a United Way agency, is collaborating with Fairmont State University to provide free resources to students. HOPE, Inc., an agency that serves victims of stalking, domestic violence and sexual assault, will be present at the FSU home basketball games on Wednesday, Jan. 18, to provide educational materials and free stalking resource kits for victims. </p>
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<p>HOPE staff will have an information booth at the women’s basketball game at 5:30 p.m. and the men’s basketball game at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 18. Stalking kits provide useful tools victims can use to collect evidence, document stalking and increase safety.</p>
<p>Stalking is an underreported crime that affects 3.4 million victims a year. Stalking may take many forms, such as assaults, threats, vandalism, burglary or animal abuse, as well as unwanted cards, calls, texts, emails, gifts or visits. One in four victims reports that the stalker uses technology, such as computers, global positioning system devices or hidden cameras, to track the victim’s daily activities.</p>
<p>Many victims and criminal justice professionals underestimate the seriousness and impact of stalking. In one of five cases, stalkers use weapons to harm or threaten victims. Stalking is one of the significant risk factors for femicide (homicide of women) in abusive relationships.</p>
<p>Victims may suffer from anxiety, social dysfunction and severe depression at much higher rates than the general population, and many lose time from work or have to move as a result of the stalking.</p>
<p>Stalking is difficult to recognize, investigate and prosecute because it is a pattern of behavior, or series of acts, directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear. Communities that understand stalking, however, can support victims and combat the crime.</p>
<p>“Campus police can better help victims of stalking if students learn to recognize it,” said Jessica Kropog Furgason, Program Specialist in the FSU and Pierpont Community &amp; Technical College Department of Public Safety. “The earlier students seek help, the more likely we are to be able to prevent tragedies.”</p>
<p>For more information about HOPE, Inc. and services for victims of stalking, please call the 24-hour hotline at (304) 367-1100. If you are a student at FSU or Pierpont and believe you may be a victim of stalking, contact the <a href="http://www.fairmontstate.edu/campuspolice/">Department of Public Safety </a>at (304) 367-4157.</p>
<p>HOPE, Inc. is a nonprofit United Way agency that offers shelter and confidential supportive services to victims of sexual assault, stalking or domestic violence and their families. HOPE provides immediate, confidential help to victims through a 24 hour hotline. Professional counseling and support are available at the shelter in Marion County or in one of the four outreach offices.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/fsunow/category/tags/community-engagement">community engagement</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/fsunow/category/tags/athletics">athletics</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/fsunow/category/tags/united-way">United Way</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/fsunow/category/tags/department-public-safety">Department of Public Safety</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/fsunow/category/tags/hope-inc">HOPE Inc.</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/fsunow/category/tags/jessica-kropog-furgason">Jessica Kropog Furgason</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/fsunow/category/tags/stalking-awareness-month">Stalking Awareness Month</a></div></div></div>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:30:43 +0000apellegrin9126 at http://www.fairmontstate.edu/fsunowBSU First to Support Community Engagement by Making Their Markhttp://www.fairmontstate.edu/fsunow/be-first/bsu-first-support-community-engagement-making-their-mark
<div class="field field-name-field-news-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Friday, December 09, 2011</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-share-buttons field-type-addthis field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:title="BSU First to Support Community Engagement by Making Their Mark - FSUNow | Fairmont State University" addthis:url="http://www.fairmontstate.edu/fsunow/be-first/bsu-first-support-community-engagement-making-their-mark"><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a>
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<p>When it was time for the first home FSU football game, Black Student Union members wanted to be the first make their mark for the Community Engagement Initiative. In fact, “Make Your Mark” is the theme this year for the student organization.</p>
<p>Dr. Tara Brooks, advisor for the group and Director of <a href="http://www.fairmontstate.edu/studentaffairs/multicultural-affairs">Multicultural Affairs</a>, says the focus is showcasing the differences that make us unique. That’s why BSU had a tent at the game featuring artwork made by many student handprints. Although each handprint has similarities, every handprint is special and unique to the person who made it. BSU celebrates African-American culture but also the spirit of multiculturalism.</p>
<p>“This year’s theme is about digging deep inside yourself first and finding who you are and making your mark in a positive and personal way in class, at work and in the community. It’s about being proud of who you are. It doesn’t matter where you’re from. Everyone involved is committed to coming together,” Brooks says.</p>
<p>Service to the community is a major focus for BSU this year. Among other activities, the student organization donated to the Sobrania Soup Opera in Fairmont and held a “Pink Out” for Breast Cancer Awareness on campus.</p>
<p>“We have chosen to ‘be First’ in our community and we embrace diversity. BSU and Fairmont State University are proud to ‘be First’ and make change,” said BSU member Sharonda Robinson.</p>
<p>The “Make Your Mark” theme has carried over to another campus effort spearheaded by Brooks and Dr. Van Dempsey, Dean of the <a href="http://www.fairmontstate.edu/schoolofeducation/">School of Education and Health and Human Performance</a>. FSU was awarded a Diversity through Equity Grant from the <a href="http://wvhepcnew.wvnet.edu/" target="_blank">West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission</a> to build and support diversity initiatives for students, faculty, staff and the broader Fairmont community.</p>
<p>Through a competitive grant process, the Commission awarded funds to state colleges and universities for initiatives that focus on the notion of diversity for equity in educational outcomes. FSU was awarded $5,250 for the 2011-2012 academic year.</p>
<p>A key element of FSU’s grant focuses on creating an archive of personal stories of diversity at FSU and in the Fairmont community. The aim of the archive is to provide Fairmont State and community members the ability to search these stories and use them as a basis for teaching activities, academic programs and public conversations and dialogues on issues of diversity in the area, state, nation and world.</p>
<p>At the Oct. 6 Fighting Falcons football game at Duvall-Rosier Field, the Diversity Task Force sponsored and staffed a tent as part of the Community Engagement initiative and began the process of recruiting participants to share their stories. The first round of archival stories will be completed by the end of the 2011-2012 academic year.</p>
<p>“When students enter into a university community, they often find themselves not only academically challenged, but also challenged in finding out who they are and how they fit into the community,” Brooks said. “By allowing these students and our whole community to hear where others have come from and where they have gone, our hope is that it will help everyone relate to these stories and guide them in their personal journey of understanding who they are and can be in the world.”</p>
<p>In addition to the digital archive, the grant will help: (1) create a strategic plan for diversity related activities; (2) develop a course for faculty and staff focused on building and sustaining a culture of respect for, engagement with and celebration of diverse issues; (3) host a series of events that encourage deliberate discussions about factors that marginalize students and constrain or deny access to learning or education.</p>
<p>“The premise of our grant proposal was based on key ways of re-imagining what ‘diversity’ means at Fairmont State University and with our broader community,” Dempsey said. “The University must be able to sustain a climate and culture where students have access to resources, ways of knowing and ways of being that nurture their own success and opportunities for creating a more diverse community.”</p>
<p>If you would like to share your story, please contact Tara Brooks at <a href="mailto:tbrooks1@fairmontstate.edu">tbrooks1@fairmontstate.edu</a>.</p>
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Fairmont State University and the Department of Athletics have announced plans for the 2010-2011 Community Engagement Initiative. The plan, titled "Put Your Best Fairmont Forward," is centered around FSU's nationally televised football game against West Liberty at 8 p.m. Sept. 30.
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<i>(</i><i><em>How to watch the game:Fans can watch the game live across the country on CBS College Sports Network and providers include: Cablevision, Charter Communications, Comcast Cable, Cox Communications, DIRECTV (613), Dish Network (152), Insight Communications, Mediacom, Time Warner Cable and Verizon FIOS.</em>) </i>
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If you're in the Fairmont area, tune in to WTCS-AM 1490 from noon to 12:30 p.m. Sept. 29 to hear Interim Director of Alumni Relations Emily Swain and Director of Athletic Media Relations Adam Zundell preview the game and all this week's exciting activities. You can also listen live on the web stream at <a href="http://www.1490wtcs.com/">www,1490wtcs.com</a>.
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On Sept. 30 from 6:10 to 7 p.m., you can also hear Tony Caridi and crew n the Metronews Statewide Sportsline broadcasting from the FSU campus. For information on how to listen, visit <a href="http://www.wvmetronews.com/main.cfm?content=progsched&amp;show=sportsline">http://www.wvmetronews.com/main.cfm?content=progsched&amp;show=sportsline</a>
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Fairmont State's 2009-2010 Community Engagement InitiativeÂ was recognized as the best in the WVIAC and one of the best in the country. For more information on last year's initiative, visit: <a href="http://www.fightingfalcons.com/news/default/31/9191/">http://www.fightingfalcons.com/news/default/31/9191/</a>
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"This game is a great opportunity for us because we can show everyone across the country the best of what Fairmont State and the community have to offer," said Director of Athletics Rusty Elliott. "We obviously are trying to engage local groups and students so that the atmosphere that night will be electric, but we also want to use our role to help us give back to the community."
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In order to give back, Fairmont State has organized <b>"</b><b>Read &amp; Feed"</b> through its Student-Athlete Advisory Committe (SAAC). Everyone coming to the game will be asked to bring a can of food and/or a gently used children's book that will be collected by the SAAC at the stadium entrance. Later, members of SAAC will then organize its different athletic teams to distribute the items throughout the area to help aid local food banks, as well as schools and libraries.Â Â
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"We hope to once again have over 5,000 people in attendance that night, and if every single person brought something, this could be an amazing project for the community," said Frank Keenan, a member of the football team and president of the SAAC. "It should be a great night for a game, and a great response from this effort would be would be a victory for our area."
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Keenan will also help organize members of the football team and the SAAC to go into the community and personally invite people to the game and promote the "Read &amp; Feed" activity.
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In addition to the "Read &amp; Feed," FSU is partnering with two organizations locally to help generate energy and excitement for the game. Fairmont State has announced, in conjunction with Main Street Fairmont, a <b>Scarecrow Contest</b> in which anyone in the community, as well as campus groups, are invited to decorate lamp posts with Fairmont State-themed items leading up to the game. (Download the entry form here &lt;<a href="http://www.fightingfalcons.com/media/2010-11/football/news/Scarecrow%20Contest_Rules_Registration%202010%20FSU.pdf">http://www.fightingfalcons.com/media/2010-11/football/news/Scarecrow%20Contest_Rules_Registration%202010%20FSU.pdf</a>&gt; , or call Main Street Fairmont at 304-366-0468.)Â
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"This initiative is a great opportunity to partner with Fairmont State and the downtown business community to support not only athletics but the university as a whole," said Vera Sansalone, Director of Main Street Fairmont.Â Â
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Also, for the second-straight year, FSU will once again partner with the Marion County Chamber of Commerce and Marion Regional Development Corporation to host a <b>Pre-Game Tailgate</b> the night of the West Liberty game. In addition, the Chamber of Commerce and Main Street Fairmont are organizing to "Paint the Town Maroon" in which local store fronts will be decorated in maroon and white.Â Â Â
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"The Marion County Chamber and Fairmont State have been great partners over the year and this is a perfect opportunity for chamber members, their families and employees to come out and show their support for FSU, Pierpont Community &amp; Technical College and the college community," said Tina Shaw, President of the Marion County Chamber of Commerce. "We are looking for a large turnout and are thrilled to be a part of the excitement."
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The night of the game, Fairmont State and Pierpont Student Government will be holding a <b>Pre-Game Tailgate/Pep-Rally</b> in the student lot adjacent to the FSU tennis courts starting at 5 p.m. The band "Vintage Drive" will be performing throughout the evening in that lot. Free "Falcon Fanatic" T-shirts and hot dogs will be given to students at that tailgate. In addition, the Department of Intramurals will be hosting games and activities in the lot for students as part of the tailgate.
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The Alumni Association will be sponsoring an<b> Ice Cream Social</b> at the game and giving away glow bracelets for the game under the lights. The alumni tent will be located inside the stadium behind the scoreboard. Fairmont State will be bringing in the nationally recognized <b>East Fairmont High School</b> band to provide entertainment throughout the game and at half time.Â
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"As you can see, this is a huge event with many different components and groups involved, and we hope we have something for everyone," said Elliott. "We hope it is a great night of football, and a great night for Fairmont and Fairmont State University."
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<div class="field field-name-field-news-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Monday, July 12, 2010</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-share-buttons field-type-addthis field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:title="FSU Tops WVIAC for Community Engagement Initiative - FSUNow | Fairmont State University" addthis:url="http://www.fairmontstate.edu/fsunow/community-engagement/fsu-tops-wviac-community-engagement-initiative"><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300" class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a>
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<p>Fairmont State's community engagement initiative, "Getting to Know You," has been named best in the WVIAC by the NCAA for the 2009-10 school year.</p>
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<p>The NCAA selected one winner from each of the 18 conferences in Division II. FSU was among those 18 schools and received $500 for its award-winning campaign. Benedict College's program, "Daniel Burgess Tricycle Relays," was the overall national winner. The Division II council has emphasized bringing community to campus to experience collegiate events and is in its second year in sponsoring the Community Engagement Awards of Excellence.</p>
<p>"Fairmont State University is thrilled to be recognized as one of the top schools in the country in this regard," said Rusty Elliott, director of athletics. "Community support is a top priority for us as a school and athletic department, as evidenced by this national recognition."</p>
<p>Fairmont State's campaign was centered on the Aug. 27, 2009, season opening home football game against Clarion University. Community groups, such as the Marion County Chamber of Commerce, were encouraged to come to the game and to meet the new president of the university. At the same time, football student-athletes went out in the community to hand out wrist bands, schedule cards and posters, personally inviting the community to come to the game and support FSU. The idea was to make the experience of going to a Fairmont State athletic event personal to the community by meeting the players and FSU President Tom Krepel.</p>
<p>"This community engagement project kicked off a highly successful season for attendance at FSU athletic events. I enjoyed meeting many community members at the Clarion game and offer thanks to the community for their support of the Fighting Falcons throughout the year. I believe that an institution like Fairmont State University has a responsibility to be a resource for our community, region and state. Making people feel welcome on campus and included in FSU athletic and academic successes is key to FSU's future endeavors," Krepel said.</p>
<p>To be considered for the award, Fairmont State developed a booklet (PDF) and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPpe3rA35NA&amp;feature=related">submitted a seven-minute DVD</a> outlining the event and its success.</p>
<p>"I am so proud of this effort, mainly because so many groups came together for the common interest of Fairmont State," said Adam Zundell, director of athletic media relations, who coordinated the efforts and handled the submission to the NCAA. "In my time here, whenever the community has been challenged to come and support Fairmont State, it does so in standout fashion. I can't thank the campus groups enough for their support and involvement to help make it a great night for the players, fans and students."</p>
<p>Elliott acknowledged that the success of the project was a result of a team effort.</p>
<p>"Our staff did a great job in helping us get this started, and then we received great support from the Marion County Chamber of Commerce and people on campus like Devanna Corley, Shannon Kelley, Tina Mascaro and Laurie Johnston, just to name a few," Elliott said. "It takes many people to pull something like this off, but when we all work together, great things like this happen."</p>
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